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It's a classic Ken Loach film. I love his work. This is wonderful to watch and it makes you angry at the way the system can utterly disempower the most vulnerable.

We should always remember it's our system (put in place by people we voted for --- or not against) and while people keep making mistakes at polling booths it will always cause suffering for the more vulnerable.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind".

It's a classic Ken Loach film. I love his work. This is wonderful to watch and it makes you angry at the way the system can utterly disempower the most vulnerable.

We should always remember it's our system (put in place by people we voted for --- or not against) and while people keep making mistakes at polling booths it will always cause suffering for the more vulnerable.

No, we should always remember that in a representative democracy whoever are in power are accountable to and the servants of all the people. Also. deliberate choices not mistakes are made in polling booths.

It's a classic Ken Loach film. I love his work. This is wonderful to watch and it makes you angry at the way the system can utterly disempower the most vulnerable.

We should always remember it's our system (put in place by people we voted for --- or not against) and while people keep making mistakes at polling booths it will always cause suffering for the more vulnerable.

No, we should always remember that in a representative democracy whoever are in power are accountable to and the servants of all the people. Also. deliberate choices not mistakes are made in polling booths.

When mature people are given choices to make they should always remember that they have to be accountable for those choices, if only to themselves.

And when people act (in any way) without thinking through the possible consequences of their actions then there is always a chance they could could bring about unpleasant consequences that we often choose to call "accidents" (but which, with sensible and educated fore-thought, could have been avoided).

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind".

It's a classic Ken Loach film. I love his work. This is wonderful to watch and it makes you angry at the way the system can utterly disempower the most vulnerable.

We should always remember it's our system (put in place by people we voted for --- or not against) and while people keep making mistakes at polling booths it will always cause suffering for the more vulnerable.

Until people stop voting for self interested reasons and instead vote for what will benefit all... nothing is going to change. Brexit, the Nationalists in Scotland, the Orange and Green in Northern Ireland, and to a lesser extent Plaid in Wales are indicative of the narrow agenda politics we are living through. Didn't bother voting over here in NI as I knew the outcome already. First time in my life I haven't voted in a major election.

Getting people to vote at all is a big issue. The "they're all the same" mantra seems to be all pervasive. "No matter who you vote for-the government always gets in" is another sixth form saying.

An example. A man at the end of my street has severe arthritis and couldn't get about. The Blair administration brought in the Disabled Living Allowance and he got a Motability car which transformed his life. I asked him on election day if he'd voted yet. With a spacious wave of his hand, he exclaimed "pah, I don't vote, they're all the same." Now, the Tories have dismantled the scheme and he's lost the vehicle. I take no pleasure from this event, but it shows that people really need to become more aware.
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Getting people to vote at all is a big issue. The "they're all the same" mantra seems to be all pervasive. "No matter who you vote for-the government always gets in" is another sixth form saying.

An example. A man at the end of my street has severe arthritis and couldn't get about. The Blair administration brought in the Disabled Living Allowance and he got a Motability car which transformed his life. I asked him on election day if he'd voted yet. With a spacious wave of his hand, he exclaimed "pah, I don't vote, they're all the same." Now, the Tories have dismantled the scheme and he's lost the vehicle. I take no pleasure from this event, but it shows that people really need to become more aware.
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"Aware" can also mean "educated" but mention lack of education and people react as if they've been called thick (even if they are) without ever considering it might simply mean uneducated about the subject they are being asked to consider.

I couldn't count how many lectures and meetings I have spent in the last 25 years studying and discussing the EU and our membership and everything I have learned has heavily suggested the EU is the best option for the poorer and weaker members of our society (the numbers of which seem to grow every year) and I stick by that. PIP will take much away from so many (including mobility in far too many cases) and in coming years I would now expect the NHS to be part-privatised so that those that can afford certain parts (GPs/A&Es/Dentists etc) will be able to use them and those that can't afford it will have to go without or end up up at heavily under-funded Human equivalents of the PDSA etc. And the irony is that those who lose out will have voted for it. Meanwhile those of us who voted Remain and will be just fine in a UK out of the EU can only shake our heads disbelievingly --- and sadly.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind".

Thanks I watched it last night. Great film, very well acted. Did not do much for for my pre Monday Sunday evening mood though, it started dark and got darker.

Haven't seen it (yet) but will. There will always be some who slip through the net but tooo often those (non-medical types) charged with protecting the ill and unemployed seem far more concerned with their own lives, jobs and worries.

Generally though --- I'd say those with "provable" conditions (heart, stroke, cancer, arthritis) etc get far better looked after by the system than those where doubts can be raised by the benefits agencies as to the extent (of even veracity) of an individual's claim. I don't know of anyone who has had a heart attack who has had to sign on --- everyone I know has been registered by the hospital or community cardiac support nurses and given automatic benefits until investigations/treatments are complete. But then until I've seen the film and how the story unfolds I'd best not judge the author.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind".

Finally seen it after waiting three weeks for the DVD to arrive from an Amazon seller. A compelling film and an antidote to those terrible Channel 5 programmes where unemployed people sit around all day drinking, smoking, taking drugs, playing with their dangerous dogs and all the rest of it. Is the system that tough, are Jobcentre staff so awful ? I don't really know. My only brush with the system was in the early 70s when I was briefly between jobs. Things were less Kafkaesque then. Anyway, a superb film which I would recommend.